Sat.Mar 17, 2018 - Fri.Mar 23, 2018

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Are you a leader or a manager?

Lead on Purpose

Business owners and entrepreneurs are often asked this leader vs. manager question regarding their management style. For many, these two words are synonymous; both are important for motivating people to work towards a common goal.

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Start your marketing with why: Getting your story right

Intercom, Inc.

No matter how good your product is, if you can’t tell a cohesive, compelling story about it, you’re going to have a very hard time getting people’s attention when you actually do take it to market. Companies like Amazon understand this well and are rightly famous for their “work backwards” philosophy. You start by writing the press release, to articulate how the world will see your product, and then work backwards until you get to the minimum set of technology requirements to achieve your goals

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Growing up Lean: Lean Strategies for Maturing Products

Mind the Product

Building an MVP and launching a product is actually the easy part. It’s much more difficult to manage a product in its maturity or decline stages, so I wanted to tackle the challenges of a product that’s past its initial growth stage, and share some tips on: – How to avoid becoming a feature factory, while taming your beast of a backlog. – How to use your roadmap to drive experimentation to hit company objectives. – How to disrupt yourself before someone else does.

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Using Discovery Insights Personality Types for Better #prodmgmt

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Discovery Insights”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Every Product Needs a North Star Metric: Here’s How to Find Yours

Amplitude

The product north star is easily the most powerful and misunderstood product strategy framework in use today. More product teams are dealing with the consequences of not defining it at all or defining it the wrong way and leading their team down an unintended path. This article is our first deep dive in a series on the north star metric. We hope it serves as a guide to product leaders and managers around the world on why this metric matters, how to define it and how to use it to drive your long-

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What Product Managers Can Learn From Sailors

Mind the Product

As both a keen sailor and product manager, I have come to realise that there are some interesting lessons to be learnt from sailing that could also be usefully applied to product management. Both disciplines are a blend of art and science, both have built-in constraints, and both require continuous learning because their environments are very dynamic.

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Managing Technical Debt

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Felix Sargent, lead a conversation around “Technical Debt”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Check it out… About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions.

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Every Product Needs a North Star Metric: Here’s How to Find Yours

Amplitude

An introduction to product strategy with examples of north star metrics across industries. The product north star is easily the most powerful and misunderstood product strategy framework in use today. More product teams are dealing with the consequences of not defining it at all or defining it the wrong way and leading their team down an unintended path.

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User-First Monetization — Lessons from Instagram and Strava

First Round Review

James Quarles played a crucial role in creating Instragram's multi-billion dollar business model. Now CEO of Strava, he's sharing the fundamentals of healthy monetization for startups.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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10 Questions: Greg Hartrell

Clever PM

A few weeks ago, I was perusing Quora as I often do, and came across a really great and insightful answer describing the differences between a “good” and “bad” roadmap by Greg Hartrell. The answer was so good that I couldn’t help but reach out him, and invite him to share some of his insights here […].

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Downsides of being a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. In the Now. > What do you like least about being a product manager? Bureaucracy is my least favorite part of Product Management. Even if you are an excellent Product Manager, you’re only as good as the environment you are in. So many companies have policies and practices that prohibit people from learning and experimenting.

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Let’s get Physical: Product Management for Manufactured Products

Mind the Product

Manufactured products can seem like a daunting area to tackle if you’re not used to hardware and manufacturing processes. In this series of posts, I’m going to examine a hypothetical scenario where you’ve been given product management responsibility for transforming a line of pedometers into a line of advanced fitness trackers and health monitors for outdoor adventurers.

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3 Simple Ways To Improve Your Prioritization in SaaS

The Product Coalition

How to improve prioritization decisions when you’re building SaaS products At Receptive, we’ve been doing a lot of writing on research on prioritization. When you’re building a SaaS product, it can be incredibly hard knowing where to spend your time, money and resources. Just which features & improvements will actually help your customers? How do you stop wasting time churning out features that have no impact on the growth of the business?

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Developing an experience map for AI startups to define their product vision

Miro

Developing an experience map for AI startups to define their product vision Here at RealtimeBoard, we empower team-driven companies to create outstanding products and experiences while we turn challenges of distributed work into competitive advantages. That’s why we are always curious about the ways leading companies and professionals from around the world approach building products […].

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10 UX & product writers you should follow on Medium

TryMyUI

Besides practice, one of the best ways to improve your UX knowledge and skills is by learning from talented minds. Medium is a great place to find some of those minds – this list contains 10 of our favorite UX and product content creators on the site whose work is thoughtful, insightful, and original. The post 10 UX & product writers you should follow on Medium appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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17 Must-Read Product Management Books

Hutwork

Product management goes well beyond those certified in agile or another method. Whether you became a product manager or someone asked you to wear one more hat, leading can be stressful. One key to successful product management is to keep learning. A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But only give you the knowledge and let you decide what to do with it.

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Running Lean Is Bad For Business

The Product Coalition

Ever since I first heard the term running lean I was confused by its appeal. Maybe it is because in the early stages of my career, I was a student of Waterfall and the idea of purposely avoiding the documentation stage just seemed irresponsible and actually, impossible to accept. But the industry was moving in that direction and I figured I needed to learn it for the sake of my career.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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Opportunity in Product from Finance to Dating

The Product Guy

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. . Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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Product Release The Smart Way — The Lovability Checklist

UX Studio

Promising product idea? Check. Good team? Check. Nice budget? Check. Success guaranteed? Not yet. A well-planned product release plays just as crucial a role as the product itself. It can all fall apart in seconds. So, how do we determine how and when to release? Making your product lovable might just hold the key to it all. MLP is the new black. Remember our old friend, the MVP?

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TEI 168: Roles and responsibilities of product managers – with Steve Johnson

Product Innovation Educators

Cutting through role confusion to create successful products. My mission is to inspire and equip product managers to have greater influence in their organizations and over product. I call this helping product managers to become product masters, and that is what both this podcast and the training I provide are about. Helping you make that move from product manager to product master is explored in this episode by considering: Various perspectives on product management, Responsibilities of the role

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Inbound Marketing is actually just a myth…

The Product Coalition

I have traditionally been a believer that any form of marketing other than what is classified as, “Inbound” is typically a waste of money and time. As I think about it however, I actually think that this idea of, “Inbound marketing” is actually a bit ridiculous. George Carlin, a hero of mine, was a master of the English language. One of his bits for which I have really become attached is when he discusses the definition of a Near Miss : I can’t help but be reminded of this hysterical bit of come

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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Software Usage Analytics and Customer Lifetime Value: Partners in Innovation

Revulytics

In his book, “ What Do You Want Your Customer to Become ,” author and MIT Research fellow Michael Schrage challenges his readers to think beyond the traditional criteria that go into calculating what is agreed upon across industries as one of the most important metrics to measure – customer lifetime value. It’s a sort of “ask not what your country can do for you,” paradigm that he introduces into the customer lifetime value conversation.

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How Video Store Product Managers Manage To Still Hang On

The Accidental Product Manager

It turns out that some video stores still do exist – how have they done this? Image Credit: Eric Parker. Can anyone remember back in the day when there used to be a video rental store on just about every corner? We’d all head down to the rental store on a Friday with hopes that the latest release would be still in stock. We’d browse the aisles, pick out our one or two movies, perhaps grab some popcorn and then check the movies out for two nights.

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Dear Strategy: 042 Weaving Innovation into a Commoditized Product

Dear Strategy

Dear Strategy: “How do you weave innovation into a commoditized product?”. This is actually a variation on a question that I answered in Episode 14, which you can access by clicking here. But I think it’s worth reiterating a couple of key points because they are really so important. . When you think of innovation, you can’t just think about the product itself.

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“I’m aware of you” — George Costanza

The Product Coalition

Those who know me will tell you that there are a few terms that I never use; not in life or business. One of these terms is awareness. I have written about awareness before but recently, its ugly head seems to be popping up again like crazy. This is a long post as it focuses on a topic in which I am greatly impassioned. One of my greatest mentors and I’m proud to say, friends, Gerry Tabio , once said “If you want awareness, light a building on fire.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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You’re Missing Valuable Data Insights. Here’s How To Change That.

Indicative

A new partnership between Snowplow and Indicative is solidifying in-house data ownership as the new normal. Snowplow customers already understand the value of owning their own data: it gives them the freedom to leverage that data to provide insights that might otherwise be locked away. But another obstacle arises once a company has gained control of their data: they need to understand it.

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User-First Monetization — Lessons from Instagram and Strava

First Round Review

James Quarles played a crucial role in creating Instragram's multi-billion dollar business model. Now CEO of Strava, he's sharing the fundamentals of healthy monetization for startups.

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The Role of the Product Management Champion (12 Tasks They Should Own)

Sequent Learning

What is A Product Management Champion? An executive champion serves as an advocate for a specific activity, function, or center of excellence in an organization. The role can be similar to that of a person who leads an industry standards organization (ISO, IEEE, ITU, etc.). Standards organizations produce guidelines, documents, and other items that […].